Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharing the honor with Mitchell was Columbia sophomore sensation Buck Jenkins. Jenkins scored 48 points on the weekend, including the winning basket in the Lions' upset of Dartmouth and 28 points in Columbia's near upset of Harvard.
Arnold was 11 when he saw his first movie on a big screen. "That was a sensation." It was also his introduction to the kind of Hollywood fable that he would later live out. "Now I was fascinated with America. When I got to junior high school, I thought, 'What...
"Dealing with life and death situation gives me the sensation of constantly being alive," she says. "For me, the most real you get is medicine. You're dealing with the most basic parts of humanity."
Does your hand clutch reflexively for the wastebasket when you encounter an invitation for a "21-day free trial period"? Do you feel a numbing sensation when confronted by a hysterical series of !!!!! or uppercased exhortations: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!!! ONLY YOU CAN HELP!!!!! ORDER NOW!!!!! ? Have you begun to...
Even Wills' detours into history, biography, political science and theology cannot obfuscate the obvious. Americans are embracing evangelical religions because they feel spiritually and morally adrift in a society that judges values on a slippery curve of relativity. Secular intellectuals are also edgy, although they are likely to call the...